Associate Professor
Department of Classical & Early Christian Studies
Contact information:
Andrew Beer, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
540.551.9162
abeer@christendom.edu
You can view my CV and follow my recent teaching and writing at my personal website:
andrew-beer.com.
I also write a monthly newsletter, which you can subscribe to here: buttondown.email/agbeer.
Education
B.A., Classical Studies, Hillsdale College
M.A., Greek and Latin, Bryn Mawr College
Ph.D., Classics, University of Virginia
Classes Taught
- Elementary Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Readings in Latin Literature
- History and Methods of Classical Research
- Homer
Hobbies
Following the Chicago Cubs
Areas of expertise
Virgil’s Georgics, Plato’s Gorgias, ancient rhetoric
Selected Scholarship
“The Two Kinds of Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias”, paper presented at the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2014
“τέχνη and its Final Cause in Republic I”, paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South: Southern Section, Richmond, Virginia, 2010
“Tradition and Originality in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo”, Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde 1 (2006)
Professional Affiliations
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Midwest and South
Eta Sigma Phi
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars